Project room Zieglergasse
Meetings / Encounters
curated by Walter Seidl
With works by Mira Klug, Hessam Samavatian, Elisa Schmid, Maximilian Weber
Wednesday to Friday 16:00 - 19:00 and by personal arrangement
Project room 1070 Vienna, Zieglergasse 46
The exhibition will be on display until October 2, 2020.
Exhibition text: Encounters - Encounters
The exhibition "Begegnungen - Encounters" focuses on the Zieglergasse encounter mile and abstracts models of interaction on an artistic level. While personal encounters currently take place at a distance and the threshold of contact is rarely crossed, artists attempt to deal with an interactive phenomenon of encounters that cannot be directly localized. Moments of a lack of contact points are transferred situationally into the image and symbolize encounters beyond physical conditionality. Here, spatial emptiness constitutes the interface between the required minimum distance between people, which a priori excludes an abundance of people, but also keeps works of art at a distance and yet allows them to interact with each other.
Mira Klug represents the fragility of contact in an installation of chairs entitled Körper, Lehnen. Leaning against each other, three chairs form a unit. The front leg of one becomes the back leg of the other. However, any wrong movement can lead to the collapse of the unstable contact zones, thereby separating the common body of the chairs once again into individual parts that are stuck in themselves and represent forms of cohesion and disintegration.
Hessam Samavatian's untitled work refers to the Japanese concept of "wabi sabi" for the perception of beauty. Things are in a state between coming into being, passing away and moving into something else. Photography is a medium that touches on aspects between the now, the past and the future without real contact. The relationship between the image and memory disappears in the metallic execution of the works, allowing visual points of contact to be sensed in an indefinable time.
In the work Fazies (lat. facies 'face'), Elisa Schmid compares the inscription of the history of the formation of rocks with the possibilities of photographic reproduction. She processes the stones she finds using a traditional Portuguese craft technique and brings the inscribed information, the geological stone structure, to light. The sculptures are accompanied by photographic portraits as exposed, non-contact moments of representation.
The work Digital Twins by Maximilian Weber questions viewing habits in the age of digital image production. The mirror becomes a media interface that records viewers via a trigger with a video camera and plays them back in both directions. Transformed into a screen, Weber's work raises questions about artificial intelligence and how images and movements of the individual can be continued in a digital realm without any physical contact.
Walter Seidl
Mira Klug, armchair, Lehnen
Hessam Samavatian, Untitled
Maximilian Weber, Digital Twins
Elisa Schmid, Fazies, display project room Zieglergasse
Elisa Schmid, Fazies, display project room Zieglergasse
All photos copyright Mira Klug for Galerie Rudolf Leeb
